Admiral Kuznetsov was built in Nikolaev, Ukrainian Soviet Republic, and was essentially stolen by a Russian admiral in 1991 during the collapse of the USSR:
> In late 1991, after the August putsch and the declaration of Ukrainian independence, Ukrainian President Leonid Kravchuk sent a telegram to the ship's commander, Viktor Yarygin, stating that the Admiral Kuznetsov was Ukrainian property and that the ship should remain in Sevastopol until the Ukrainian government decided on its fate.
> The deputy commander of the Northern Fleet, Yuri Ustimenko, arrived urgently from the Arctic to preempt the Ukrainian government and ordered the Admiral Kuznetsov to Vidyaevo so that the ship could remain part of the Soviet Russian Navy.
Oh, and the infamous "Moskva" was also built in Nikolaev.
So was China's PLA flagship, the Type 001 aircraft carrier "Liaoning" (bought by China from Ukraine in 1998 and completed at the Dalian Naval Shipyard in northeast China).
Russia is just a reverse cargo cult without the other parts of the Union.
There's a 90% finished but thoroughly rusted out and obsolete Slava class sitting in Mykolaiv right now. Frankly I'm surprised Russia hasn't wasted a Kh-22 on it. I know it's a rusted out write-off but it would be really, really funny if Ukraine finished the ship to NATO standards with NATO systems after the war
They are saving it to replace the Moskva.
Well that's a bit silly of them, given their complete and repeatedly demonstrated inability to capture Mykolaiv.
Still a lot more probable than the Russian ship construction industry magically start producing modern ships at a reasonable rate.
That's not a Slava class moron.
IIRC post-1991 Russia doesn't have military shipyards that can build anything the size of a Slava-class and Monke's delusions of grandeur can't have that so one of the main objectives of this invasion was Mykolaiv. That they couldn't go further than Kherson is a failure second only to the Kyiv "feint".
Yep, the largest ships Russia has built are frigates.
Russia only nominally has a blue water navy by coasting off the USSR.
>it would be really, really funny if Ukraine finished the ship to NATO standards with NATO systems after the war
They had already refurbished it to NATO standards, but were forced to scuttle it so that the Russians could not seize it and use it against the Ukrainians.
>frigate
Are you trolling or moronic?
Yep, being a moron here and mixed the two vessel classes, my bad.
Shit happens.
Fair enough, but the screenshot you posted literally has the name of the ship as the first line, and the headline calls it a frigate (Slavas are cruisers except Moskva, which was promoted to submarine)
>When Ukraine gets the Admiral Kuznetsov as war reparations
What's ironic is that Russia never even reached that shipyard and so they scuttled it for nothing.
>What's ironic is that Russia never even reached that shipyard and so they scuttled it for nothing.
It was done as a preemptive measure, all ok.
The Russian Bear hadn't revealed itself to be a panda yet, so I cant blame them.
russian ship designs are designed to kill every single person on board if even a .22lr hit it, so scuttling russian death traps saves lives.
I sacrifice 2 ships from the field to summon the smoker
All of the Soviet carriers were built in Nikolayev. I think the only really large Soviet surface warships that were built in what is now the RF (at least after the 50s or so) are the Kirovs. Not sure if the Baltic Shipyard could still handle building something that big nowadays.
Learn the difference between Nikolayev and Mykolaiv.
> Learn the difference between Nikolayev and Mykolaiv.
There's none - same city in Russian (Nikolayev) and in Ukrainian (Mykolaiv) writing.
It's the same thing in two different language, both of which are widely spoken in Ukraine (one formally, the other informally)
The correct name is Nikolajew.
>boat thread
This thing is visiting here today, say something nice to it
ay is this Helsinki? Looks nice actually.
Yup Helsinki Hernesaari port specifically
USS Kearsarge
we had taht ship over at tallinn a few months ago.
Surprisingly large for a ship that small
> Surprisingly large for a ship that small
Wat
Which helicopter carrier is this?
I hope the visiting sailors are / were nice
>bunch of NATO ships visiting copenhagen before or after an exercise
>bongs
>danes
>dutch
>german
>germans send this fricker
>the schleswig-holstein
>to denmark
And they say Krauts don't have a sense of humour.
It's the Schleswig-Hostein situation, again, again.
We used to call it the USS Queerbarge.
are you implying that the soviet union built its shipyard on (then) its own territory, near a giant industrial center in a region rich in resources? madness!
>are you implying that the soviet union built its shipyard on (then) its own territory
The USSR did not build it. In fact, that shipyard is at least 100 years older than the USSR itself.
The town itself was only founded in 1789. Before that the area was Turkish.
Ukraine being the military industrial core of the USSR is something the Russians will never admit.
Ukraine stole Nikolaev from Russia and Russia is about to fix it
Btw pic related is a ukrainian moskva sistership
> Btw pic related is a ukrainian moskva sistership
At least it's still afloat.